The U.S. delegation to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women assembled by Ambassador Nikki Haley includes the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), a group that supports the criminalization of homosexuality.hrw.org(See also United Nations, Nikki Haley, LGBTQIA)

The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it was allowing doctors, nurses and other health care workers to refuse to provide services for people that they object to based on religious beliefs, including abortion, providing contraception, and transgender health concerns.nytimes.com(See also Women, LGBTQIA)

2018.01.19

Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday as chief of external affairs for the federal government's volunteer service organization after a review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio.cnn.com(See also Resignations and Dismissals, Racism, Women, Black Americans)

Donald Trump said that transgender issues were in flux after a report that his administration was considering defining gender as male or female based on genitalia at birth drew widespread condemnation.reuters.com(See also LGBTQIA, Reversals)

2018.11.13

In Donald Trump’s first year in office, the number of reported hate crimes jumped 17% — the highest climb in more than a decade — according to 2017 numbers released by the FBI.buzzfeednews.com(See also Trump Effect, Racism, Anti-Semitism)